Jackie Stewart is the executive editor of American Banker Magazine. Previously, she covered breaking news, community banks and mergers and acquisitions for American Banker before being named as the managing editor of the Credit Union Journal. After graduating from Northwestern University in 2006, Jackie taught for two years in the Bronx, N.Y., through Teach for America.
Online banking customers for King's Town Bank in Taipei, Taiwan, can now send and receive Western Union money transfers internationally.
Broadway Financial Corp. in Los Angeles said Wednesday that it once again complies with Nasdaq listing requirements after filing its third-quarter earnings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Following a shift of its Treasury services function to another Federal Reserve bank, the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland has eliminated all but a handful of job at its Pittsburgh branch and is selling its 80-year-old building in that city's downtown.
StellarOne Corp. in Charlottesville, Va., has repurchased the remaining $22.5 million in preferred stock it issued under the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
Add NorthEast Community Bank in White Plains, N.Y., to the growing list of federally chartered thrifts converting to state charters.
Receivables Exchange said Wednesday that it is working with Insperity to provide live receivables auctions to more small and medium U.S. businesses.
Morgan Stanley said Tuesday in a filing that more than a third of the 1,600 layoffs it announced earlier this month may be in New York City.
A Plano, Texas, check-imaging technology provider has settled its federal patent infringement claims against U.S. Bancorp for undisclosed terms.
A Florida holding company formed in 2008 to buy troubled banks has struck another deal in the Tampa Bay area after calling off its previous acquisition.
The Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago has received the go-ahead from its regulator to begin repurchasing stock from its member banks.
Commerce Bancshares Inc.'s banking unit has agreed to pay $18.3 million to settle a class action involving overdraft fees.
The Federal Reserve has fined two banks for violations of the National Flood Insurance Act.
Edwin Hale officially stepped down Thursday as chairman and CEO of 1st Mariner in Baltimore. The banking company named interim successors.
The title insurance unit of First American Financial Corp. has agreed to acquire Hexter-Fair Title Co. in Dallas.
Peoples Bancorp Inc. in Marietta, Ohio, plans to repay its remaining $18 million of federal aid next week.
United Community Financial Corp. in Youngstown, Ohio, completed another step in its capital-raising plan with the sale of four branches to Croghan Bancshares Inc. in Fremont, Ohio.
Synovus Financial Corp. President and Chief Executive Kessel D. Stelling will take on the additional title of chairman when Richard E. Anthony steps down from the position on Jan. 1.
First American Bank Corp. in Elk Grove Village, Ill., has repaid $15 million of the $50 million it received from the Troubled Asset Relief Program with funds it raised in a recent stock sale.
MutualBank in Muncie, Ind., has received regulatory approval to convert from a federal savings bank to a state commercial bank.
First Midwest Bancorp Inc. in Itasca, Ill., said Thursday that it paid $900,000 to repurchase a warrant it had issued to the Treasury Department as part of its participation in the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
